June 11, 2008

Marjoram Mystery

In our new herb garden we have planted three marjoram plants.  We have never grown marjoram and to be honest I have not cooked much with it either.  None the less it looked great and went well with the other plants we selected.  I noticed today that the plants had started to flower.  As I [...]

June 11, 2008

Photos from Kelly

I wanted to share with all of you some wonderful and beautiful photos my wife Kelly took of various things in our garden.  She is an artist by nature and seems to be able to capture the perfect image with her camera.
                                                 
                                                  
                                                 
                                                            
–matt bolus

June 11, 2008

Next step for the coriander seed

My plants have now started turning brown ever so slightly.  In the past few weeks I have done some research about the harvesting of coriander seed and found it to be a fairly simple process.  Cut the plants off, invert into a paper bag, hang in a cool dry place for a week or so, [...]